Jin Qing stayed in the small courtyard for nearly a month, and the official who was said to be meeting with her to discuss matters was late.
It's just that this person's identity is a bit special. He was actually Zeng Da, the man who killed Mo Wanxia.
I think back then, Zeng Da’s father was also a general stationed on one side.
However, when he took his family out of the city to play, they were ambushed by enemy troops and took his family abducted.
After that, a large number of foreigners besieged the border city. The defenders of the border city went through untold hardships to defend the city without a general. .??.
Since the whole Zeng family disappeared on the battlefield, the deputy general who defended the city reported to the court and blamed the Zeng family for the foreign sneak attack, giving them the name of collaborators and traitors.
Not only the family property was confiscated, but all the Zeng family members were exiled. For a time, the huge Zeng family was like a fallen tree, falling into pieces.
Zeng Da's family also suffered a lot after being taken captive.
The foreigners originally wanted to capture General Zeng and relieve their own hatred.
Therefore, after taking people away, they would naturally not be allowed to live a good life. The daily torture and humiliation made several members of the Zeng family miserable.
In the end, the Zeng family sacrificed themselves and found a chance for their three children to escape.
Zeng Da took a deep breath before escaping from the enemy's territory with his injured siblings.
At that time, the three brothers and sisters of the Zeng family were all injured, especially the youngest Zeng Xiaomei, who not only had a broken leg, but also had her face disfigured.
The three people managed to escape to a mountain not far from the Central Plains, and then they fainted due to lack of physical strength.
Then, the eldest princess picked up these three people who "needed help".
Zeng Da was originally a selfish person. It was not easy for him to treat his younger siblings sincerely. How could he be sincere towards the eldest princess and Mo Wanxia?
So, there is
I watched the scene of sunset going down the mountain.
After Zeng Da returned to the capital that year, he went directly to his colleagues who had been friends with his father in the past and presented the document to the new emperor.
Originally, Zeng Da's father was very prestigious in the court, and he was an important minister in the court who was highly trusted by both the former emperor and the new emperor.
The new emperor also hated the Zeng family deeply because they rebelled against the country and abandoned the city and fled.
At this time, he saw the three brothers and sisters of the Zeng family who had escaped desperately. There was nothing unclear about the new emperor.
After learning about the unjust injustice suffered by the Zeng family, the new emperor not only returned the ancestral home that had been seized by the Zeng family, but also gave countless rare treasures to the three Zeng brothers and sisters as a sign of appeasement.
Because Zeng Xiaomei is old and has problems with her appearance, she cannot marry at all.
The new emperor simply gave her grace and brought Zeng Xiaomei into the harem, intending to give her a place to belong to.
Because Zeng Da had been working as a lieutenant general for his father in the past years and was very familiar with military matters, the new emperor gave him the official position of a second-grade general.
Zeng Er had already passed the second-level Jinshi examination before, but his official career was ruined because of this incident.
The new emperor wanted to give Zeng Er an official position, but Zeng Er had no interest in officialdom and was uneasy because of the murder of Mo Wanxia.
He simply declined the reward given to him by the emperor, went out alone on a clear and clear morning, and has been missing since then.
Only the servant guarding the gate told Zeng Da that Zeng Er claimed that he wanted to travel all over the world.
Seeing Zeng Er leave the capital, the emperor thought that Zeng Er was disheartened because of the unreasonable disaster of the Zeng family.
From then on, Zeng Da’s favor became even greater
The Zeng family became the upstarts of the imperial court, and for a time they were in the limelight.
In the blink of an eye, nearly ten years have passed, and Zeng Er has completely disappeared.
The last time someone discovered his traces was ten years ago.
A woodcutter who went up the mountain to cut firewood once saw an unshaven Zeng Er standing alone on a cliff. He didn't know what he was thinking.
The woodcutter came up to chat with Zeng Er for a few words and then left this strange man. From then on, no one saw Zeng Er again.
And Zeng Xiaomei has a physical disability due to her poor appearance.
After being admitted into the harem by the emperor, he joined the queen's camp, hugged the queen's thigh tightly, and did some dirty things for the queen.
After all, she was a person who had been in the enemy's prison. Zeng Xiaomei came up with endless torture ideas, which made the people in the harem miserable, but she couldn't find any evidence.
Because the injuries were all in inexplicable places, Zeng Xiaomei struck swiftly and left no trace at all. ??
Therefore, everyone in the harem hated Zeng Xiaomei, but the queen was extremely satisfied with her.
The queen was mindful of her loyalty, but the emperor had never been to her palace, so she kept other princes who had no concubines by Zeng Xiaomei's side as a show of favor.
Knowing that this child would be her support for the rest of her life, Zeng Xiaomei did her best to raise the prince. Her life in the palace was much easier than that of other concubines who had no children.
The situation in the harem can easily affect the previous dynasty.
Zeng Xiaomei joined the queen's camp, and the queen's eldest son was honored as the prince, so Zeng Da became an out-and-out princeling.
Zeng Da has done really well in these years. He has done all the things assigned by the emperor beautifully and is a good person.
Just got it the year before last
He got the title of Viscount and married the daughter of the prime minister's family. It was as if he had reached the pinnacle of his life.
The late emperor was a very extravagant and lustful person. He not only liked ostentation, but also demanded the finest in everything.
When the new emperor took over, he discovered that not only was the treasury empty, but there was also a lot of money accumulated.
Therefore, the emperor has always attached great importance to business affairs and only hopes to bring more income to the country.
However, the trade road has always been uneven, and various cottages are entrenched on the only road for trade.
There are endless cases of killing people and stealing goods, and fewer and fewer people dare to do business on the business road.
Especially the section from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, which is located at the junction of the two countries, does not belong to either country.
At that time, because there were many mountains and forests in this area and wild animals were frequent, neither country included this part in their territory.
Only a few homeless people were allowed to settle here, and small villages were slowly formed, and then there were cottages one by one.
Only after the trade routes were established, the two countries discovered the importance of this area to them, but by then it was already too late.
Although the two countries have had constant friction in recent years, they have never really started a war.
But once an army enters this area, it will definitely trigger a war.
Therefore, the Central Plains and the Western Regions have always been eyeing this area, but neither dared to take action first. They just kept testing each other's intentions.
Just when the emperor thought that the business road was going to be ruined, he discovered that the bandits on the business road had been unified.
The emperor had originally thought of secretly destroying this stronghold that unified the trade routes, and then sending his own people to garrison it, so that the order of the trade routes would be under his control.